Professional word nerd; SEO content editor, onetime restaurant critic, ex-journo by choice; #amediting @MindyKB@dftba.club
Capital Region, NY
Joined August 2008
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Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
I HAVE RETURNED TO MAIN because I am FURIOUS that @JNJGlobalHealth is preventing millions from accessing life-saving treatment with bedaquiline, thereby costing innumerable lives and increasing the global risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW…
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
@JNJGlobalHealth, it's time to live up to your first credo: "We believe our first responsibility is to the patients, doctors and nurses, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services."
#PatientsNotPatents
TAG joins TB survivors, advocates, researchers, clinicians, and civil society organizations to demand @JNJNews publicly commit to non-enforcement and withdrawal of all secondary patents on bedaquiline.
Read our open letter: treatmentactiongroup.org/let…
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
How about..... not being needlessly terrible and ending the bedaquiline patent? @JNJNews @JNJGlobalHealth
#PatientsNotPatents
@johngreen
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
Why do you think you have the right to deny access to life saving TB treatment @JNJGlobalHealth @JNJNews? The development of bedaquiline was publicly funded. You made money. Now stop restricting access to bedaquiline, we are #PatientsNotPatents.
ALT Screenshot of Wikipedia blurb for bedaquiline. The screenshot reads: "The public sector invested US$455–747 million in developing bedaquiline. This is thought to be 1.6× to 5.1× what the owner, Janssen Biotech, invested (estimated at US$90–240 million). If capitalized and risk-adjusted, these costs become US$647–1,201 million and US$292–772 million, respectively."
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
Elon Musk could have ended world hunger and poverty, and he decided to fuck up Twitter for $44 billion instead.
#Twittershutdown
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
I hate so much all that cost of living advice that is basically “give up anything that might bring you a modicum of joy during these rancid times so that you can afford to simply exist as a husk otherwise you are not worthy of support because you’re not doing the most you can”
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
It's like how even if a lot of high school sucked, here you are on the last night, and you just want to feel like the best times felt.
Which reminds me that the Awesome Coffee Club is the Official Sponsor of Twitter's Denouement. awesomecoffeeclub.com
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
If this is the end, some parting wisdom:
ALT A cross stitch of the phrase “Live, Laugh, Lay Eggs and Die” with little gray and pink salmon swimming above and below the script. It looks like something your mom would hang in the entryway if your mom was super metal.
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
twitter rn
A flock of Sheep in Inner Mongolia have been walking in a circle for over 10 days straight and no one knows why.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A bacterial disease called Listeriosis has been known to cause ‘circling’ in animals. The disease inflames one side of the brain, which is why circling, and sometimes paralysis of the affected side, is often seen.
agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/an…
metro.co.uk/2022/11/16/chi…
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over!
All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fo…
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
Over the next few months, whenever you see a tweet about Hunter Biden from a GOP account, ask them what they’re doing about crime and inflation.
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
BIG NEWS: The Senate just voted to move forward on the Respect for Marriage Act.
No one in a same-sex marriage or an interracial marriage should have to worry if their marriage will be invalidated.
No one should be discriminated against because of who they love.
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
NEW: Facebook sent a memo to its fact-checkers this afternoon telling them if Trump announces he's running for president tonight they can no longer fact-check anything he says.
cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/…
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
Republicans passed laws prohibiting counting early votes until after the polls close, then they cry about how long it takes to count votes. They think you’re stupid.
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
SOCIAL MEDIA BOTS: Your disapproval is duly noted but your upvotes and retweets will not be part of this year’s totals. This is not meant as an affront to your robot overlords, it’s just not allowed for in Arizona law.
Mindy 🧷💜♠️ retweeted
CANDIDATES: All legal votes will be counted, including votes for you. If you have the most votes in the final tally, you will be elected. If you do not have the most votes, you will have lost your election.
